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of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera are conspicuous. 

 In the latter, particularly in the genus papilio, 

 not only this neighbourhood, but Scotland in ge- 

 neral, is remarkably poor ; and yet the Treasurer 

 of this Society * has added one, I believe, even to 

 the number of British papilios. The genus of 

 Phalsena is exceedingly numerous, and though a 

 very natural genus, it has been, for the sake of 

 convenience, broken by Fabricius and other en- 

 tomologists, into a number of genera. The indi- 

 viduals here are many of them so delicate, that it 

 is difficult to take a specimen on the wing, with- 

 out injury to its specific characters, and conse- 

 quently, it is not easy to ascertain them properly. 

 I have collected a number of species of this genus, 

 which I could not include in the following list, 

 being so imperfect that the species cannot with 

 certainty be made out. With regard to the nu- 

 merous species of Aphis, Acarus, Pediculus, &c. 

 I have given no enumeration at all. However 

 important these may be in the economy of Nature, 

 I believe they are seldom kept in cabinets, or 

 made an object of much attention with the mere 

 entomologist. 



An asterisk is prefixed to the few species that 

 can be accounted rare. 



* Patrick Walker, Esq. 



